World Water Monitoring Day at Cuyahoga Valley National Park

We’re teaming up with our partners at the Cuyahoga Valley Environmental
Education Center to celebrate World Water Monitoring Day in Cuyahoga Valley
National Park on September 18! This special event will highlight the importance
of youth leaders taking action to monitor and protect their local water
resources.

The planned program will unite over 100 students from Coventry Middle
School, Cleveland Municipal School District, Akron School
District, and Woodridge Local School District. These students will work
alongside their teachers, EarthEcho Co-Founder and President, Philippe Cousteau
Jr. and the EarthEcho Team, Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center
staff, National Park Service rangers,
and local volunteers. Participants will work at sites throughout the National
Park, focusing on water quality testing using EarthEcho Water Challenge test
kits, invasive species removal, and tree planting to restore and protect the
water quality of the Cuyahoga River Watershed. Following their field work,
students will record their water quality data into the EarthEcho Water
Challenge database and watch as their efforts contribute to global awareness of
our water resources.

Jim Trogdon, a teacher at Coventry Middle School whose students will join
in the World Water Montoring Day event, helped initiate our collaboration with
the Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center, where he has been bringing
his students for over 20 years. “EarthEcho does globally, what the Environmental
Education Center does locally for the Cuyahoga River Watershed,” Jim shares. “We
want our students, the future, to act now in helping with water quality and the
environment. We are fortunate enough to have Cuyahoga Valley National Park its
Environmental Education Center to use for exactly these purposes, and now our
students can see how that plays a larger role in the world thanks to
EarthEcho’s international database.”

You can
join us and take action in your own community for World Water Monitoring Day on
September 18. Click here to learn more about this global event and how you can
get involved. You can also follow along on our Facebook page on September 18
for LIVE updates from Cuyahoga Valley National Park and other key events from
across the country. Be sure to join the conversation and let us know how you’re
taking action with hashtag #MonitorWater.